Measurements and Applications
All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping.
Full Name
Synthetic Aperture Radar - 2000
Status
Operational
Instrument Agencies
ASI
, MoD (Italy)
Maturity
Instrument Type
Imaging microwave radars 
Geometry
Side-looking
Instrument Technology
Imaging radar (SAR)
Sampling
Imaging
Data Access
Constrained Access
Data Format
Resolution
Single polarisation modes; Spotlight: 1 m. Stripmap: 3 - 15 m, ScanSAR: 30 or 100 m. Two polarisation mode (PING-PONG): 15 m.
[Best Resolution: 1m]
Swath
Single polarisation modes: Spotlight: 10 km. Stripmap; 40 km. ScanSAR: 100 or 200 km - Two polarisation mode (PING-PONG): 30 km.
[Max Swath: 200 km]
Waveband
Microwave: X-band, 9.6 GHz, with choice of 5 polarisation modes (VV, HH, HV, VH, HH/HV + VV/VH)
COSMO-SkyMed 1 - COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 1 (2007 - 2025) |
| COSMO-SkyMed 2 - COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 2 (2007 - 2025) |
COSMO-SkyMed 3 - COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 3 (2008 - 2022) |
| COSMO-SkyMed 4 - COnstellation of small Satellites for Mediterranean basin Observation - 4 (2010 - 2025) |